]]>By: mazblasthttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/06/03/richie-phillips-former-head-of-umpires-union-passes-away-at-age-72/#comment-505092
Tue, 04 Jun 2013 06:22:02 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=467001#comment-505092Big, fat, arrogant SOB. I’ll always remember him as being loud, overbearing, and abusive when it wasn’t necessary. That 1999 move was possibly the worst move in sports labor history, and a rare instance of Bud Selig coming away with a 100% win.
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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:52:19 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=467001#comment-505076Amen brother. I second the motion , the motion is passed to have Shaq sit on tanknazi for the entire WS.
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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 03:07:43 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=467001#comment-505043Unreal. Keeping it classy, as alway. If you weren’t such a coward, maybe you’d post with your real name. Oh, wait – that’d require a male organ, integrity, and conviction on your part. My mistake.
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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:23:48 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=467001#comment-505003Forgive me for talking bad of the dead. I always thought Phillips had an air of arrogance and entitlement about him and the union. Verducci saying that his “legacy is complex” is a polite way of saying he did some positive things but also a bunch of negative things too.
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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:10:15 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=467001#comment-504991What I remember about him as a young baseball fan in the 70s and 80s, he would always look the other way when Joe West or somebody did something totally out of line on the field. That attitude has clearly carried into today, which is not a good legacy to have. Baseball is worse off because of it.
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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:50:13 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=467001#comment-504978Oh wait – was he a great big fat person?
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